Search Results: Titles starting with F from Blacks Bookshop

NY: Bantam, 1990. 1st Edition Thus. MMPB 4.25"x6.75. Very Good-Collectible. 306 pgs. 10th printing. Spine slightly slanted, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, PO stamps. Faint creases to spine, shelf and edge wear. Secure ship w/track #. Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found. The people of Floral Beach didn't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren't even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men's prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. After all, everyone knew Jean had been a wild kid. "Like mother, like daughter," some said--though never within hearing of Shana Timberlake, who, whatever her faults, still mourned… Read More

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1989. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 179 pgs. Cream boards w/rust letters stamped in spine. Author photo by Carter Blackmar. Jacket photo by Joe Albanese. DJ #14817 designed by Abby Kagan. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found. The people of floral Beach didn't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren't even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men's prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. After all, everyone knew ...Source: Publisher.

NY: Atria / One Signal Publishers, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING W/DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.26" H x 9.13" L x 6.22" W (1.05 lbs) 320 pages. Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America's most outrageous grifter--US Representative George Santos. America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians: Teflon Don, AOC, MTG, Dark Brandon, and all the rest have injected DC politics with an unmistakable edge of celebrity flair and tabloid intrigue. Yet in 2022, a new player on the national scene outshone them all. George Anthony Devolder Santos, and his revolving door of pseudonyms, shed glaring new light on how far we'd all let our politics slide as his claimed resume was shred to bits in the wake of a longshot run to office from New York's 3rd Congressional District. From Wall Street… Read More

Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING W/DJ WRAPPED IN CLEAR MYLAR COVER. Physical Info: 0.7" H x 8.6" L x 5.7" W (0.65 lbs) 86 pages. Features: Price on Product, llustrated. First time in hard cover. Expanded version. Ship w/track #. n "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.

NY: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2012. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. New. Physical Info: 0.8" H x 8.2" L x 5.4" W (0.55 lbs) 159 pages. Cover design by Matt Owen. Originally published in 1951.;Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns--.;The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman;personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author;a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others;rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive--Cover p. [4].;In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.

Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks; Jobberwocky, 2007. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Collectible - VeryGood. Chang, Tara Larsen & John and Linda LoCascio. 119 pgs. 8.5" 1st printing. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Corners slightly curled. First book of The Fairy Chronicles! Ages 7+ Inside you is the power to do anything. Meet Beth, who's just discovered something incredible... she is a fairy, a marigold fairy, to be exact. But Beth must learn to be a fairy during an emergency! The Feather of Hope has been lost and Beth must enlist the aid of her dog, Peanut, in a daring mission to rescue it from a house occupied by dangerous gremlins. And if Beth, her new fairy friends and Peanut can't get the Feather back, all hope will be lost...forever. What if you discovered you had magical fairy powers? Meet the girls of The Fairy Chronicles, otherwise normal girls like you who are blessed by Mother Nature with special gifts. Their extraordinary… Read More

NY: Crown, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover_clothspine. Collectible - VeryGood/Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5"x1". 268 pgs. Cream boards. Lt. red cloth spine w/gilt letters. Jacket design: Jennifer O'Connor. Jacket photographs from Author. Author photographs by Stepanie McIntyre. Book design by Debbie Glasserman. Spine straight, binding tight. DJ unclipped. X-library w/graphics. Red dot on top edge. "Running away from God doesn't work. I had tried." —Roger Benimoff As he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am scared. I am on fire for God...He is my hope, strength, and focus. But not long after returning to Iraq, the burdens of his job-the memorial services for soldiers killed in action, the therapy sessions after contact with the enemy, the perilous excursions "outside the wire" while under enemy re-began to overwhelm him. Amid the dust, heat, and blood of Iraq, Benimoff felt the pillar of strength he'd always relied on to hold… Read More

American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Inc, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Very Good-Collectible. 6.25"x9.25" 423 pages, bibliography, w/excerpt from Land Divided. First printing. Black boards w/gold letters on spine. No DJ. Maps for paste downs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, & unmarked. Faint soil spots throughout. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, the moving saga of the Birmingham family continues as the clash between North and South forces generations of family members to examine their personal and political loyalties. After surviving harrowing battles together, cousins Ben and Luke Birmingham are dispatched by the Union army to New York City to quell rioting draft protestors. Violence spills into the streets of the teeming city, and the assignment proves to be more life-threatening than the battlefield. As the war scars the nation, it demands more from the family, and Luke's younger brother Robert is drawn into the Union… Read More

NY: Simon and Schuster Audio, 2012. Used - VeryGood. 8 CDs; X-library. Narrator Dennis Boutsikaris. Unabridged. Comes in case with envelopes for disc. "Adam Blaine arrives on the island of Martha's Vineyard to attend the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who has served as patriarch of his clan for many years. A man fond of sailboats, good wine, and women other than his wife, Ben Blaine has left behind a string of secrets in addition to an emotionally distraught widow and his strangely aloof mistress, Carla Pacelli, a beautiful television actress who once had a drug problem. As soon as Adam arrives, he discovers that Ben has disinherited his mother, uncle, and brother in favor of his lover, and begins to wonder if his father's death -- caused by an inexplicable fall from a cliff -- might be murder. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam skillfully seeks to obscure the evidence suggesting that a family member may have killed his father, while at the same… Read More

Lake mary, FL: Realms, 2005. 1st Edition. Paperback. Near Fine-Collectible. Stated first edition. 5.5"x8.25"x.75"; 292 pgs. No markings throughout, but pages are tanning. Cover has very little shelf wear around edges. Spine straight and binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Secure ship w/track #. "A sweeping epic of origins and mysteries, the fall of Lucifer tells a tale older than the universe itself. Set in opulent palaces and frightening hell worlds, this is a timeless saga of doubt, of demons and angelic warriors, of obsessive love and treason, and of an ancient evil that knows no bounds..."-Goodreads.

London, UK: Amber Books Ltd, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 8.75"x11.25" 192 indexed pgs. w/map key and bibliography. Boards mirror DJ. Khaki green paste downs. Project Editor: Michael Spilling; Copy Editor: Stephen Chumbley; Design: Graham Curd. Picture credits listed. Stated "First Published". Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped ($34.95), unmarked. Faint foxing to back inside flap of DJ along top edge. Minimal shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich takes the reader from the peak of Nazi power in Europe, following the campaigns that led to the utter destruction of the German war machine. The course of the war's final years is charted in a series of 50 stunning full colour maps supported by 60,000 words of text as well as colour and black and white illustrations. This work will be a worthy addition to the bookshelves of the serious military historian and the general reader… Read More

NY: Harper Collins, 1996. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5". 294 pgs . Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. Author photo: AP Newsfeatures. DJ design by Peter Thorpe. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Legions of devotees will cheer the return of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in Tony Hillerman's most intricate and atmospheric novel yet. The Navajo policemen whose exploits are now published in sixteen languages are brought together by the need to know how a man met his death on Ship Rock, almost seventeen hundred feet above the desert floor. Why had he climbed this mountain sacred to Navajos and why had he been killed there - or, even worse, left to die a lonely death? The fallen man lay sprawled on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain for eleven years - visited only by the ravens that had picked his bones clean and scattered his rock-climbing gear. That peaceful period ended,… Read More

NY: Signet, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 599 numbered pages. Black boards w/gold foil letters to spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Some soiling on edges. Not x-library, letters to ffep. Secure ship w/track #. Acquitted for the murder of her husband through the perjured testimony of psychiatrist Christian Hunter, Elizabeth Carleton struggles to uncover the true murderer, rebuild her life and business, and find new love. Source: Publisher.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1955. 6th Edition or later. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good-Collectible. FIFTEENTH PRINTING. 6.25"x9.5" 1614 numbered indexed pgs. Centennial Edition. Teal cloth boards. Top edge painted red. Gold letters within red title block on front and spine. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ, unmarked. Crease to ffep. Few faint soil spots on boards and spine. Price covers extra shipping for weight. Secure ship w/track #. Original over 100 years ago. "This collection, originally made without any view of publication, has been considerably enlarged by additons from an English work on a similar plan, and is now sent forth with the hope that it may be found a convenient book of reference." May 1855.

NY: Viking Press, 1975. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.5" 152 pgs. Black boards w/light periwinkle letters on spine. DJ #1217 designed by Mel Williamson. Author photo by Jill Krementz. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Minor edge wear. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. When a bomb kills his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, sedentary sleuth and gourmand Nero Wolfe is determined to go to any length to find the killer.

NY: Hyperion, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood. 7.5"x9.25" 332 pp. 1st printing. Hunter green cloth boards w/gilt letters on spine. Matching silk ribbon. White paste downs w/Evergreens. DJ design by Laura Drew. Back jacket photo c Corbis. Author photo c Joseph Moran. Painting of angel on front cover by Jacqueline Kennedy, 1963. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, & unclipped. Minor shelf wear to DJ. Two small tears to back edge of DJ repaired. "When I began assembling [this] collection, I was skeptical that I would learn anything new about Christmas, but reading and reflecting on the history and spirit of Christmas brought back many memories, and taught me a great deal ... The literature of Christmas ranges from the miraculous to the tragic, the profound to the ridiculous, but always represents the connection to something larger than ourselves." Caroline Kennedy In A Family Christmas, Caroline shares the Christmas… Read More

Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 1975. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good/no jacket. 8.25"x10". 1370 pgs. Blue cloth boards w/gold letters on front. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt letters. Alphabetical order of subjects. Also includes Documents That Shaped American History and Subject Guide. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slight tone, unmarked. Not x-library. Some fading to boards. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Light dust soiling to top edge. Beginning with A: Aachen, Treaty of (1748) and ending with Z: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma (1889- ). A comprehensive volume from Reader's Digest for the entire family which explains everything related to American History. Goodreads 3.86.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 2014. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Collectible - Near Fine. 5.5"x8.25". 370 pgs. 1st Printing. Cover design by Olga Grlic. Cover photo c Shutterstock. Cover phto of gold frame c Author photo c Ian Warburg. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Faint crease on top right corner of front cover. "Who can you trust if not the ones you love? Sylvie and Maggie are two women living on opposite coasts with children about to leave the nest for school. Both are in their forties with husbands who travel more than either would like. The looming emptiness of their respective homes has left them feeling anxious and lonely, needing their husbands to be home now more than ever. It isn't until Eve, Sylvie's daughter, happens to befriend Maggie's daughter that the similarities between these two women becomes shockingly real. A huge secret has remained well hidden for years until now, and their lives will be blown apart as dark truths from… Read More

NY: Delacorte, 2010. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 322 numbered pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters to spine. DJ design by Shasti O'Leary Soudant. Author photo: Brigitte Lacombe. Jacket poto: Ron Chapple Stock. Book design by Virginia Norey. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect with a limitless future—until a single phone call changed the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold. Now, at forty-two, still happily single with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is suddenly facing an empty nest. With her nephew and nieces now grown and confronting challenges of their own, she must navigate a parent's difficult passage between helping… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good-Collectible. 6.5"x9.5" 384 indexed pgs. 2nd Printing stated. Bright persimmon cloth boards w/black letters to spine. Foreword by Alex Inkeles. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, no DJ, unmarked. Chip to TRC of ffep. Drawing on Soviet accounts, published and unpublished Western materials, numerous interviews, and personal observations, H. Kent Geiger presents a study of the family in the USSR from the Revolution to the present. His analysis is pursued from several vantage points: the family unit as an idea and ideal, the family as a social institution in the context of a totalitarian society, and the family in terms of individual members' opportunities and problems. This vivid portrait of Soviet life at the grass roots level touches upon dimensions of Soviet society, such as marital difficulties and class differences, which have previously been virtually unknown. Source: Publisher I:… Read More